HR Director, IT

Location: Maidenhead, Berkshire, England

It takes great people to achieve greatness. People with a sense of purpose and integrity. People with a relentless pursuit of excellence. People who care about making things better For Those Who Make The World™. Sound like you? Join our top-notch team of nearly 60,000 professionals globally who are making their mark on some of the world’s most beloved brands, including DEWALT®, CRAFTSMAN®, CUB CADET®, STANLEY® and BLACK+DECKER®

The Job

The HR Strategic Business Partner will be a strategic advisor and trusted partner to various parts of Corporate Functions across Business Development, Finance, IT, and Legal leadership teams. This high-impact role is responsible for driving the people strategy, organizational effectiveness, and talent agenda within a function, supporting both day-to-day HR operations and long-term strategic initiatives. The successful candidate will leverage deep business acumen and HR expertise to deliver solutions that enable functional leaders to achieve their objectives and drive sustainable organizational growth.

Key Responsibilities

o Strategic Partnership: Collaborate with senior leaders in either BD, Finance, IT, and/or Legal to align HR strategies with business objectives, organizational priorities, and decision making. Translate business plans, financial priorities and market dynamics into integrated talent plans with clear outcomes, ownership and measures.

o Organizational Design & Effectiveness: Advise on organizational structure, workforce planning, and change management to ensure optimal resource allocation and operational efficiency in a matrixed environment.

o Talent Management & Succession Planning: Lead talent reviews, succession planning, and career development initiatives to build a diverse, high-performing pipeline of future leaders for corporate functions.

o Engagement, Employee Relations & Culture: Foster a positive, inclusive culture by providing guidance on employee relations, conflict resolution, and engagement strategies. Support leaders in interpreting engagement and employee experience insights, working with leaders to agree focused actions and monitor delivery and impact.

o Data-Driven Insights: Analyze HR metrics and business data to provide actionable insights for leadership, enabling informed decision-making on workforce trends, retention, and organizational health.

o Performance Management: Support leaders in driving a high-performance culture through effective goal setting, feedback, and development conversations. Guide the implementation of performance management programs aligned with functional goals. Coach leaders to raise the quality of performance management, feedback, development and differentiated talent decisions.

o Compensation & Rewards: Partner with Total Rewards and Compensation teams to design and implement competitive compensation structures that attract and retain top corporate talent.

o Learning & Development: Identify skill gaps and recommend tailored learning solutions, partnering with internal L&D resources and external providers as needed.

o HR Operations & Compliance: Ensure HR policies and procedures are effectively communicated and adhered to, maintaining compliance with relevant employment laws and company standards.

o Global & Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with global HR colleagues across all regions/geographies and Centers of Excellence to deliver seamless HR support for corporate functions, sharing best practices and driving consistency.

o Grow and Development of Others: Leads the growth and development of talent by coaching others, providing actionable feedback, and creating opportunities that build individual and organizational capability (within the HR function and across others). Fosters a culture of continuous learning and succession readiness by strengthening bench strength across the organization.

The Person

• You love to learn and grow and be acknowledged for your valuable contributions. You’re not intimidated by innovation. Wouldn’t it be great if you could do your job and do a world of good? In fact, you embrace it. You also have:
• o Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s in HR, MBA, or related field preferred.
• o Minimum 5-8 years of progressive HR partnership experience supporting employee groups in complex, matrixed organizations with distributed workforces.
• o Demonstrated ability to influence senior leaders, drive strategic initiatives, and deliver results in a fast-paced environment.
• o Experience with Workday and comfort using data to inform decisions.
• o Strong consultative skills, executive presence, and business acumen.
• o Ability to manage multiple competing priorities, navigate ambiguity, and operate independently.
• o Resourceful with the ability to navigate the unknown, finding solutions by navigating through internal and external channels
• o Deep knowledge of organizational design principles, workforce planning, talent and succession, performance management, talent development, change leadership and employee relations.
• o Strong analytical capability using qualitative and quantitative insights to identify trends, frame decisions and evaluate impact.
• o Exceptional communication, relationship-building, and project management skills focused on helping business deliver value.
• o Commitment to fostering an inclusive workplace and championing continuous improvement.
• o Healthy sense of humor and resilience.

The Details

• o Competitive salary
• o Medical, dental, life, vision, wellness program, disability, 401(k), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, paid time off, and tuition reimbursement.
• o Discounts on Stanley Black & Decker tools and other partner programs.

And More

o Grow: Be part of our global company with 20+ brands to grow and develop your skills along multiple career paths.

o Learn: Have access to a wealth of learning resources, including our Lean Academy, Coursera®, and online university.

o Belong: Experience an awesome place to work, where we have mutual respect and a great appreciation for diversity, equity and, inclusion.

o Give Back: Help us continue to make positive changes locally and globally through volunteerism, giving back, and sustainable business practices.

We Don’t Just Build The World, We Build Innovative Technology Too.

Joining the Stanley Black & Decker team means working in an innovative, tech-driven and highly collaborative team environment supported by over 43,500 professionals in 60 countries across the globe. Here, you’ll get the unique chance to impact some of the world’s most iconic brands including STANLEY TOOLS, DEWALT, CRAFTSMAN, MAC TOOLS and Black + Decker. Your ideas and solutions have the potential to reach millions of customers as we work together to write the next chapter in our history. Come build with us and take your career to new heights.

Who We Are

We’re the World’s largest tool company. We’re industry visionaries. We’re solving problems and advancing the manufacturing trade through innovative technology and our Industry 4.0 Initiative. We are committed to ensuring our state-of-the-art “smart factory” products and services provide greater quality to our customers & greater environmental and social value to our planet. We are unique in that we have a rich and storied history dating back to 1843, but that hasn't stopped us from evolving into a vibrant, diverse, global growth company.

Global Benefits & Perks

You’ll be rewarded with a competitive salary plus receive entitlements and benefits unique to your country of hire.

What You’ll Also Get

Career Opportunity: Career paths aren’t linear here. Being part of our global company with 60+ brands gives you the chance to grow and develop your skills along multiple career paths.

Learning & Development

Our lifelong learning philosophy means you’ll have access to a wealth of state-of-the-art learning resources, including our Lean Academy and online university (where you can get certificates and specializations from renowned colleges and universities).

Diverse & Inclusive Culture

We pride ourselves on being an awesome place to work. We respect and embrace differences because that’s how the best work gets done. You’ll find we like to have fun here, too.

Purpose-Driven Company

You’ll help us continue to make positive changes in the local communities where we work and live as well as in the broader world through volunteerism, giving back and sustainable business practices.